Embedded System Validation Engineer Jobs in Clifton, NJ

Job Summary:
Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm, and they are seeking an AI Validation Engineer to join their Technology team. The role involves defining and driving the validation strategy for AI-assisted software delivery within the Macro Trading Technology team, ensuring trading integrity while accelerating releases through collaboration and the use of AI tools.
Responsibilities:
• Define and drive the validation strategy for AI-assisted software delivery across our Macro Trading Technology team, building a scalable approach that protects trading integrity while accelerating releases
• Translate deep knowledge of macro trading workflows into clear behavioral rules, acceptance criteria, and validation scenarios that guide engineers and AI tools during development
• Collaborate with engineering leadership, business analysts, and stakeholders, to clarify expected system behavior before and during implementation and to build consensus on release gates
• Build and maintain comprehensive regression coverage for critical trading workflows, including end-to-end workflow regression, data validation, user interface checks, downstream-impact verification, and documented manual validation paths
• Develop and maintain Playwright-based automation for high-value user journeys such as blotter behavior, trade capture flows, workflow controls, release smoke checks, and regression packs
• Use AI tools as an integral part of validation to accelerate rule definition, scenario generation, test design, automation development, defect analysis, documentation, and release preparation
• Validate AI-generated code and configuration changes through targeted human review, automated tests, exploratory testing, and evidence-based release checks
• Create reusable assets including rule catalogs, scenario libraries, golden datasets, regression packs, automation suites, manual validation scripts, and release-readiness playbooks that others can build on
• Lead user acceptance testing planning and execution, drive defect triage and release-readiness assessment, and own post-release validation and stabilization for business-critical macro trading workflows
Qualifications:
Required:
• 8+ years of professional experience in trading technology, business systems analysis, quality assurance, validation engineering, test automation, or software delivery
• Hands-on domain experience with financial markets or trading technology, including exposure to fixed income, futures, foreign exchange, trade capture, blotter behavior, automated straight-through processing, order management and execution systems, or front-office trading platforms
• Strong background designing and executing validation for production systems, including regression testing, user acceptance testing, manual validation, exploratory testing, defect triage, release support, and post-release stabilization
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex business workflows, identify edge cases and control points, and convert expected behavior into testable requirements and release-readiness evidence
• Hands-on experience developing and maintaining automation for modern web applications using Playwright or equivalent automation frameworks
• Strong SQL and data analysis skills with the ability to validate system behavior through database queries, logs, APIs, service responses, and downstream data inspection
• Practical experience using AI tools across the delivery lifecycle, with a strong understanding of how AI-assisted development increases the need for clearer business rules, stronger regression coverage, targeted human review, and evidence-based release gates
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to work effectively with engineering, business analysts, trading stakeholders, program management, operations, and compliance
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards
Company:
Point72 invests in multiple asset classes and strategies worldwide. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in Stamford, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.